Good morning. It is Thursday December 29th. It is six minutes after 10. This is the Kennel and Casey show on 93 WIBC and Tony

Kennett is filling in for Rob Kendall today, who is on vacation. And Tony, this segment is designed for you. This is

straight in your wheelhouse. And we're going to talk about education and some stories that are going on changes to the

K through 12 curriculum, increased access to early childhood education and a response to Indiana's ongoing teacher shortage.

These are the top things that Indian lawmakers say they are going to address in the 23 legislative session when that begins real soon.

Yeah, I mean, there should be some things that the Indiana legislators actually do regarding education rather than holding eight hour long testimony sessions where people say one of two things over and over and over and over again.

The first and foremost of all of these is that teacher licensure in Indiana should be completely disbanded. It should be completely

disbanded. There is no reason the state of Indiana's department of education should be deciding who does and does not get to

teach in the classroom. That is what the local school board is for. Every school system in the state of Indiana should be allowed to

determine what it is that makes you good enough to teach in their school system, whether that's a specific kind of degree, whether

that's a test you have to take, whatever, it should not be the I and DOE giving you a massively expensive test by Pearson, the largest bureaucratic garbage dump of a corporation ever that determines whether or

not you're good enough to teach. You shouldn't have to sit through a number of meetings every year on woke nonsense to be a teacher. That should be up to the local school board. That would solve a huge part of the teacher shortage.

Okay, something else that's going on is that Republican lawmakers have hinted at a return of the curriculum transparency bill.

Yes, HB 1134. Yeah, talk to us about that. So HB 1134 failed last time because they cobbled 22 different things together in one bill.

And it was garbage instead of focusing on a few smaller bills that are much harder to tackle in an opposition perspective.

We hot glued everything together like a really bad DIY life hack video.

Well, let's tell everybody what the bill is about. It seeks to prohibit sexually explicit content in school library books.

Yeah, the kind of a piece from the last bill last year, the one that I was just ragging on that is now hopefully being put forward as its own bill is a version of Florida's 1557, which was that no sexually explicit or

sexually focused content of any kind is allowed to be in the curriculum K through three. Now, I think it should be like a lot further up than third grade.

That's just me. I don't think sexual content should really be an elementary schools at all. But that is the bill.

The funny thing is Indy Star reported on this and called it a don't say gay bill.

So this is the parental rights and education bill. Yeah. The idea that you should be able to decide what it is that your kids have exposure to or

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